Dispensing-pump



B. P. FALTIN.

DISPENSING PUMP. 'APPLICATION FILED ocr. 21, 1919.

Patented oct. 18, 1921.

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B. P. FALTIN.

DISPENSING PUMP. APPLICATION FILED ocT. 27. 1919.

Patented Oct. 18, 1921.

Fill." #lim "RII I V4UNITED STATES BERNARD P. IALTIN, or BAREVILLE, ri'iNNsYLvANIA.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Pal-@Inga 0011-. '18. 1921 Application filed october 27, isle. serial No. 333,449.

To all whom t may concern:

. Be it known that I, BERNARDI). FALTIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bareville, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dispensing-Pumps; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andeXact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled inthe art to Vwhich it appertains, to make and use the same.

This invention relates to housings and doors for inclosing dispensing` pumps.

An object ofv this invention is to provide a housing and door that may be quickly and easily opened and adapted at the same time' for protecting the usual form of gasolene dispensing pump.

A further object of this invention is to provide an improved housing and door for dispensing pumps in general.

A further object of this invention is to provide a suspended door mechanism for dispensing pumps, and easy means of operating said door and improved and simplied bearings for doors in housings of said pum s.

Considerable difliculty has been occasioned in making pumps of this character and providing accessible housings therefor in that it has been considered quite essential that the dome be of greater diameter than the pipes beneath it in order to properly shed the water, and that the pedestal be the least in diameter, and that the section between the dome and the pedestal, if inserted, be

of lesser diameter than the dome and of greater diameter than the pedestal.

An object of this invention has been to provide a weatherproof dome of symmetrical and uniform structure and to overcome such diiiculties.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists of the construction, the combination, the detail, and arrangements of partsA as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the usual dispensing pump to which this invention relates showing that which does not relate to this invention in skeleton.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary side elevation.

Fig. 3 is a section at 3'-3 in F ig. 2 showing the door closed.

Fig. 4is a vfragmentary enlarged section of one of the lower rollers and its corresponding parts. ,y

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary section showing the door suspension'bearing taken at 5-5 in Fig. 6. y

Fig. 6 isa like View to'Fig. 3 showing the door open.

In detail the invention comprises'a semitubular door-A and a semi-tubular complementary housing B, and means for mounting the same as hereinafter described. In the usual type of housing for gasolene dispensing pumps the housing comprises a base member 2, having-a dome 3, which is elevated in order to uncover the base portion 2 and which is usually provided with counterweights to make easier the counterweighting of this dome.

In this device it is unnecessary to provide for the flexing of connections and suoli between the dome and the base. It also obviates the using of counterweights and the like for counterbalancing the weight of this dome, and provides a much more desirable means of access to the said pump. Thus, when it is desired to use this invention in a device already constructed having the elevating means in common use for opening the housing, all that is necessary to install it is to aiiX a stud mount 4 by brackets 5 to the dome of the housing and rotatably mount the door A by a stud 6 to said mount 4 by inserting said stud in said mount and locking the same with a nut 7. Door A is provided with a top 8 having a hub 9, which hub 9 is bored tovmate'stud 6 and is held in upright position by shoulder 10 upon said stud 6. Thus, the Whole door is held in suspension upon stud 6. A means of guiding said door and keeping the same in alinement relative to its mount on stud 6 is provided by rollers 11, which rollers 11 have a clearance so that none of the weight rests upon them but they rest laterally against the usual annular portion 12 of such housings. Rollers 11 are mounted upon the door A by a stud 13 which is riveted into the said door in a countersunk recess at 14. In the door A is an inward curl 15 and in the casing B is an outward curl 16 suitably overlapping the space as provided between the door A and the casing B asshown adjacent to curls and 16. In construction,Y owing to the fact that the usual housing is an annulus such as 12 With'a recessed portion 17 for .receiving the dome, "all that is necessary is to raise the dome of the saidtank and alix the brackets 5 and affix the casing B with screws 18 to the annulus 12 and the dome 3. and thus the door and casing are of the old style of housing can be dispensed with, such as the counterweights and. springs for elevating the dome and the provision for Vflexing and longitudinal motion of the dome relative to its component parts.

A lock is provided at 19 With a key socket 20 to hold the said door in locked relation as desired when closed.

ln voperation all. that is necessary isv to engage with the handa handle 20 and swing the door in angular relation after it has previously been unlocked and the interior of Vthe housing is exposed, thus affording convenient access for operating said pump.

It is obvious that a door ofV this type possesses among many other advantages in relation to its easy operation also the advantage of taking less spacethanlike doors having a vertical axis. i

, It is further obvious that the pump here illustrated is of symmetrical structure and substantially uniform in diameter throughout and that at the same time it is Weather- Claim:

In al housing for a dispensing device,a pedestal having a circular guide rim formed with a rabbetfon its outer and upper edge, a cylindrical casing having axed part'and a rotatable part, the lower edge'of the 'fixed part beingvsecured to the outer vface of the guide rim, the rotatable part beingpivotally secured from above and its lower edge slidably seated in the rabbet on the circular guide, and a` plurality of groo'ved rollers secured to the inner face ofpthe'frotatable part adjacent itslovverfedge, the grooves of the rollersfsea'ting over the upper edgeo this circular guide to; secure the rotatable part thereon. Y

`In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

` BERNARD P. FALTIN. 

